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PCE(R)-854



Call sign:
Nan - Yoke - Fox - Jig
PCE(R)-848 Class Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue): Laid down 24 November 1943 by the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; Launched 27 March 1944; Commissioned USS PCE(R)-854, 4 January 1945; Sold to the Wilson Lines Inc., Boston, MA and renamed Liberty Belle II; Later sold to a Cuban Steamship Company. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 903 t; Length 184' 6"; Beam 33' 1"; Draft 9' 5"; Speed 15.7k; Complement 99; Armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm gun mounts, two dct, two dcp Propulsion two 2,000bhp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts.

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PCE(R)-854 41k c. 1945 Robert Hirst
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